• Becoming Eve with Abby Chava Stein

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century...

    $10
  • Mimi Lok: Last of Her Name

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Mimi Lok discusses her new book, Last Of Her Name, with Rachel Khong. Praise for Last Of Her Name "Last of Her Name is a mesmerizing and...

    Free
  • Dave Eggers / The Captain and the Glory

    Book Passage San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, United States

    When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader vows to step forward. Though he has...

    Free
  • How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell: Book Discussion and Author Visit!

    The Ruby 23rd and bryant street, san francisco

    "I’m suggesting that we protect our spaces and our time for non-instrumental, noncommercial activity and thought, for maintenance, for care, for conviviality." —Jenny Odell Join...

    Free – $7
  • My Life, My Stories / Intergenerational Holiday Party

    Red Victorian 1665 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    When was the last time you went to a party with someone older than 70 who was not your grandma? Let's celebrate 2019 together! Please...

    Free
  • Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington discussing Charlton D. McIlwain's new book Black Software: The Internet, Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to...

    Free
  • Michael Frank: What is Missing

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Michael Frank discusses his new novel What Is Missing with Lindsey Crittenden. Praise for What Is Missing "Michael Frank’s masterful and psychologically acute first novel—which leads us with...

    Free
  • Peter Kline and Susan Steinberg

    Green Apple Books on the Park 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Peter Kline discusses his new poetry collection Mirrorforms with Susan Steinberg. Praise for Mirrorforms In Mirrorforms, Peter Kline has invented and perfected a new poetic form; in and...

    Free
  • The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Tyrone Williams

    The Unitarian Center 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The Poetry Center is honored to host Tyrone Williams, presenting this year's annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture, in its 34th iteration since the inaugural talk in 1985. The...

    $5 – $10
  • A World Without Wars – Part 2

    The Beat Museum 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, United States

    IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY NINA SERRANO ARNOLDO GARCIA JULIE ROGERS DIEGO DE LEO JEANNE POWELL CAROL DENNEY NILOUFAR TALEBI...

    Free
  • Adam Mansbach & W. Kamau Bell

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Adam Mansbach is a novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and cultural critic, as well as the author of the “children’s books” Go the F*** to Sleep and You Have to F***king...

    $29
  • Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night

    Manny's 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, San Francisco, United States

    Come to Manny's for our monthly open mic nights. Poets, readers, performers - all are welcome here! December 6th, the one and only Randy James...

    Free
  • Lightning Strikes: A benefit for Saint Mary’s Rising Writers

    Dolby Chadwick Gallery 210 Post Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA, United States

    DATE & TIME: Saturday, December 7, 2019 - 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. LOCATION: Dolby Chadwick Gallery 210 Post St #205, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA View a...

    $150 – $500
  • Babylon Salon: Jamel Brinkley and Chia-Chia Lin: Winter 2019

    The Armory Club 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    presents our Winter Reading Saturday, Dec 7, 2019, 6.00 pm  at The Armory Club 1799 Mission Street  (downstairs performance space)   featuring Jamel Brinkley (A Lucky Man) Finalist...

    Free
  • Howard Zinn Book Fair: Strike! Discovering Our Power

    San Francisco City College 1125 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA

    Howard Zinn Book Fair 2019 Sunday December 8th 10am to 6pm City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia Street We are pleased to...

    Free
  • Small Press Book Bazaar!

    SF MoMa 151 Third St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Free and open to the public; museum admission is free on this day Meet us at SFMOMA and around the Bay for Local Affairs, a...

    Free
  • Girls Who Run the World

    JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United States

    Sunday, Dec 8 Starts at: 5:00 pm TICKETS General Admission  $20 Members get 10% off. Pop-Up Kid Entrepreneur Maker Fair: 4:00 pm Panel Discussion: 5:00...

    $20
  • DA do SF 7

    Specs Bar 12 William Saroyan Place, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Come to SPECS Bar on Sunday, December 8 at 6pm as 3RP Co-directors Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges present their annual Dada Journal MAINTENANT reading...

    Free
  • Mondo Bummer 10th Anniversary Non-Reading

    E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore 410 13th Street, Oakland , CA, United States

    Join us in celebrating Mondo Bummer's 10th anniversary! Mondo Bummer started in 2009 as sort of a joke and grew into a small press /...

    Free
  • Bedtime Stories: Beach Fest

    San Francisco Eagle 398 12th St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    It's been cold, and, "we need the rain," can only go so far. We at Bedtime Stories are ready to have a Beach party to...

    $5,
  • You Don’t Owe Anyone Pretty

    Counterpulse 80 Turk St, San Francisco

    In this powerful storytelling event, award-winning performer Kimberly Dark shares stories from her new book, FAT, PRETTY, AND SOON TO BE OLD (AK Press, 2019),...

    $15
  • An evening with Kal Spelletich

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    An evening with Kal Spelletich Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 7:00 p.m., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco in conversation with Catharine Clark discussing...

    Free
  • Silvia Federici book launch of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

    CIIS Public Programs 1453 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (PM Press & Kairos, 2019). Federici surveys the paradigms that...

    Free
  • US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

    JCCSF 3200 California St , San Francisco, CA, United States

    Joy Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, made history this year when she became the 23rd US Poet Laureate, making her the first Native...

    $30
  • Happy Endings: Room For Dessert

    Make-Out Room 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The perfect ending to the year and any good meal. We're satisfied. We're bloated. We've got those full-belly-bedroom-eyes. But you know what, Sunbeams? We still...

    $10
  • Roy Scranton

    City Lights Bookstore 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, United States

    Roy Scranton reading from his new novel I  ❤Oklahoma ! published by Soho Books Suzie's seen it all, but now she's looking for something she lost: a...

    Free
  • Grace Paley’s Birthday

    Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Judith Arcana, author of Grace Paley's Life Stories, will read and share from her decades-long friendship with Grace and their history of activism and writing....

    Free
  • InsideStorytime Flux

    Cinnabar 397 Ellis St., San Francisco, CA, United States

    Our last event of 2019. Readers include Mahnaz Badihian (Raven of Isfahan), Ed Miracle (Maker Messiah), Jen Burke Anderson, and others.

    Free
  • SOSADTODAY’S Melissa Broder performs “Eating Alone in My Car”

    Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA, United States

      SOSADTODAY’S MELISSA BRODER performs “Eating Alone in My Car” Wednesday, December 11, 2019 7:30 pm Venue: Sydney Goldstein Theater TICKETS To purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 This...

    $29